NUMBER SERIES

Tips for Number Series

(1) Try to observe if there are any familiar numbers in the given series.

(2) Familiar numbers are the numbers which are easy to identify like primes numbers, perfect
squares, cubes.

(3) If you are unable to find familiar number, calculate the differences between the numbers and
observe the pattern in the differences.

(4) If the differences are growing slowly it might be an addition or subtraction series or if the
differences are growing rapidly it might be a square series, cube series, or multiplicative series.

(5) If the differences also are not having any pattern then observe every alternate number (i.e.
every 3rd number form a series) for any pattern.

(6) The possible cases may be like sum or the average of two consecutive numbers gives 3rd
number.

(7) If still you do not find any pattern, it signifies that the series follows a complex pattern.
Check for cases like multiplying the number and adding/subtracting a constant number from it to
reach the pattern.

Question for Practice

Find the missing terms:
1. 1, 2, 9, ?, 16900
(a) 19 (b) 121 (c) 100 (d) 45

2. 2, 4, 16, 512, ?
(a) 2048 (b) 16384 (c) 524288 (d) 131072

3. 6, 9, 7, 10, 8, 11, ?
(a) 14 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 11

4. 563, 647, 479, 815, ?

(a) 672 (b) 386 (c) 279 (d) 143

5. 0, 7, 26, 63, 124, ?

(a) 210 (b) 215 (c) 211 (d) 224

6. 72, 9, 82, 10, 88, 16, 86, 14, 99, ?

(a) 102 (b) 22 (c) 18 (d) 16

7. 6, 5, 7, 12.5, 27, ?
(a) 69 (b) 57.5 (c) 67.5 (d) 69.5

8. 2, 11, 58, 295, 1482,?

(a) 6750 (b) 4450 (c) 6459 (d) 7419

9. 7, 12, 20, 37, 81, 206, ?

(a) 324 (b) 306 (c) 280 (d) 574

10. 6, 24, 60, 120, 210, ?

(a) 363 (b) 336 (c) 346 (d) 333

11. 1, 2, 6, 7, 21, 22, 66, 67, ?

(a) 124 (b) 201 (c) 402 (d) 98

12. 2, 3, 19, 100, 356, 981, ?

(a) 1289 (b) 2277 (c) 2028 (d) none of these

Direction: Find the odd one out:

13. 6, 9, 15, 21, 24, 28, 30

(a) 28 (b) 21 (c) 24 (d) 30

14. 10, 25, 45, 54, 60, 75, 80

(a) 10 (b) 45 (c) 54 (d) 75
15. 2, 5, 11, 27, 58, 121, 248
(a) 5 (b) 11 (c) 27 (d) 58

16. 4, 5, 14, 39, 103, 169, 290

(a) 5 (b) 14 (c) 39 (d) 103
 CODING AND DECODING

Coding-decoding is one of the most important topic in reasoning section of any

competitive exams. We can expect 5-6 questions from this section.
Types of Coding-Decoding:
(1) Letter Coding
(2) Number Coding
(3) Symbol Coding
(4) Deciphering message coding
(5) Substitute coding

(1) Letter Coding:

17. If in a certain code “RANGE” is coded as 12345 and “RANDOM” is coded as 123678.
Then the code for the word “MANGO” would be?
(a) 82357 (b) 84629 (c) 82347 (d) 83274

18. If “PROMPT” is coded as QSPLOS, then “PLAYER” should be?

(a) QMBZFS (b) QMBXDQ (c) QUREXM (d) URESTI

19. In a certain code language, 'no more food' is written as 'ta ka da' and 'more than that' is
written as 'sa pa ka'. How is 'that' written in that code language?
(a) Sa (b) ka (c) sa or pa (d) data inadequate

20. In a certain code GUEST is written as 53@$2 and MEAN is written as 6@4#. How is
SAME written in that code?
(a) 4$6@ (b) $46@ (c) $36@ (d) 5$6@

21. If in a code, 52 – 36 = 97 and 46 – 78 = 1510, then how 53 – 62 can be encoded?

(a) 1520 (b) 88 (c) 2015 (d) 201
 22. In a certain code language ‘tree is very beautiful’ is written as ‘ka na da ta’ and ‘this is
strong tree’ is written as ‘na pa sa ka’. How is ‘beautiful’ written in that code language?
(a) Da (b) ta (c) sa (d) data inadequate

23. In certain code language ‘si po re’ means ‘book is thick’, ‘ti na re’ means ‘bag is heavy’,
‘ka si’ means ‘interesting book’ and ‘de ti’ means ‘that bag’. What should stand for ‘that
is interesting’ in that code language?
(a) ka re na (b) de si re (c) ti po ka (d) de re ka

24. In certain code, RELATION is written as ZKDQMNHS and NOSE is written as NMDR.
How will MISTER be written in that code?
(a) NHRQFS (b) QHLMDQ (c) RHLMDQ (d) RHLQDS

25. In certain code language, CHANAKYA is coded as ZBPZMZSX. How will KAUTILYA
be coded in the same code language?
(a) ZBMNFGZP (b) ZBORGFZP (c) ZBOMFGZP (d) ZBONGFZP

26. In a certain code language, 732 means ‘intelligent trained faculty’ 285 means ‘highly
intelligent student’, 816 means ‘student and teacher’. Which numerical symbol in that
code language stands for ‘highly’?
(a) 5 (b) 8 (c) 7 (d) 2

27. In certain code language, ROCK=47 and LATE=38. Find the code for FOOL.
(a) 48 (b) 52 (c) 26 (d) 32

28. In certain code language SERIES is coded as 5625 and PIPE is coded as 2116. How will
WAP be coded in the same code language?
(a) 1331 (b) 1600 (c) 1728 (d) 4096

29. If in certain code 1326 is coded as 8673, and 5670 is coded as 4329, then the code for
0009 will be
(a) 9990 (b) 1110 (c) 8881 (d) 1090

30. If blue is coded as green, green is coded as white and white is code as black, and then
what will be the code for the colour of grass?
(a) White (b) Green (c) Black (d) none of these

31. In a certain code language, ‘po se de’ means ‘she is good’, ‘tep re po’ means ‘good are
clever’ and ‘se tep flu’ means ‘boy is clever’. Which of the following means ‘are’ in that
language?
(a) re (b) tep (c) po (d) se

32. If ‘green’ is called ‘white’, ‘white’ is called ‘yellow’, ‘yellow’ is called ‘blue’, ‘blue’ is
called ‘pink’ and ‘pink’ is called ‘black’, then what is the colour of milk?
(a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) pink

33. If 35+48=40, 23+34=24, 15+25=26, then 11+21=?

(a) 15 (b) 18 (c) 10 (d) 20
Directions (Q. 34–36): Study the following information and answer the questions given
In a certain code language “we try to make” is written as “76 62 56 27”, “make it for good” is
written as “52 75 62 26” , “we are good boys” is written as “52 65 67 27” and “boys try it for” is
written as “75 56 26 67”
34. In the same code language how “to try” can be written?
(a) 76, 26 (b) 56, 76 (c) 26, 56 (d) 75, 76
35. How “for” may be written in the above code language?
(a) 52 (b) 62 (c) 75 (d) 67

36. How “boys make” can be written in the same code language?
(a) 62, 65 (b) 75, 65 (c) 62, 75 (d) 62, 67

37. Find the next terms

BRH, ZUD, ?, VAV, TDR, RGN
(a) XYZ (b) XZZ (c) XXZ (d) XZY

38. X7D, V11G, T13J, ?, P19P

(a) Q15M (b) R17M (c) Q17L (d) R15M

39. GAS27, IEU35, MIY47, OMA29, SOE39, USI49,?

(a) WUM57 (b) WWO61 (c) YUM59 (d) YWN62

40. In a certain code DREAMING is written as BFSEFMHL. How is SELECTED written in

that code?
(a) FMFTCDSB (b) FMFTEFUD (c) EKDRCDSB (d) EKDREFUD

41. Find the missing term

A1Z, E2V, I6R, M21N, Q88J,?
(a) F445U (b) U445F (c) G342C (d) V441G

42. Find out the wrong in the letter series

CFI, FIL, JLQ, LOR, ORU
(a) JLQ (b) FIL (c) LOR (d) ORU

43. Find out the wrong in the letter series

PUB, QVD, RWG, SXQ, TYP
(a) PUB (b) QVD (c) RWG (d) SXQ

44. Find the missing term

N5V, K7T,?, E14P, B19N
(a) H9R (b) H10Q (c) H10R (d) I10R
(b)
45. Find the next two term
ST, ND, RD, TH, ? , ?
(a) TH, TH (b) VW, SW (c) RW, KH (d) ST, MN

Directions (Q.46-50): Study the information and answer the following questions.
In certain code language “economics is not money” is written as “ka la ho ga”, “demand
and supply economics” is written as “mo ta pa ka”, “money makes only part” is written
as “zi la ne ki” and “demand makes supply economics” is written as “zi mo ka ta”.

46. What is the code for “money” in the given code language?
(a) ta (b) pa (c) mo (d) la

47. What is the code for “supply” in the given code language?
(a) Only pa (b) Either pa or mo (c) Only mo (d) Either mo or ta
 48. What may be the possible code for “demand only more” in the given code language?
(a) Xi ne mo (b) Xi ka ta (c) Mo zi ki (d) Ki ne mo
49. What may be the possible code for “work and money” in the given code language?
(a) Mo la pa (b) Pa la tu (c) Pa ga la (d) Pa la ne

50. What is the code for “makes” in the given code language?
(a) ho (b) ne (c) pa (d) zi
Number Series, Letter Series and Coding-Decoding
1.C 2.C 3.C 4.D 5.B 6.C 7.D 8.D 9.D 10.B
11.B 12.B 13.A 14.C 15.B 16.D 17.C 18.B 19.C 20.B
21.B 22.D 23.D 24.D 25.B 26.A 27.A 28.B 29.A 30.A
31.A 32.C 33.C 34.B 35.C 36.D 37.C 38.B 39.C 40.A
41.B 42.A 43.D 44.C 45.A 46.D 47.D 48.A 49.B 50.D